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Re: [dane] [openpgp] The DANE draft

Carsten Strotmann <carsten@strotmann.de> Thu, 06 August 2015 10:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dane] [openpgp] The DANE draft
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Hi Stephen,

On 06/08/15 11:58 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
>> > I might agree but I think the gain for this is so incredibly small, that
>> > I think the gain for use of online signers plus email address
>> > corrections by the smtp+dnssec combined server is actually a more likely
>> > and minorly useful thing to have.
> Can you point me at a DNS server (or real specification for one)
> that generates responses in any similar fashion? I'm not aware of
> any that actually do, (even if they could do), but that my just be
> my ignorance.

PowerDNS with a remote backend could do this, but it would require some
glue code to be written by the admin to be able to talk to the smtp-server.

I can evision such an installation for a few large mail providers, but
not for the majority of mail server installations.

Carsten

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